Excerpt from Young Folks' Recitations: Designed for Young People of Fourteen Years; Containing Selections in Both Prose and Poetry, Together With Some Short Dialogues and Tableaux A few dialogues and acting tableaux are appended, and thus through its adaptability it is believed that'the book will meet the wants of children for the merry makings in the home circle, for church annlversaries, and for school exhibitions. Such then is the style and character of this collection of Readings and Recitations which we offer to you, the Young Folks of our Beloved Land; trusting you may find in 1t much to gratify and please, and, above all, that which will lead your minds and hearts to thoughts Beautiful, Pure, and Good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.